huis

huis

1. plural of hui

• Shiu, husi

From Dutch huis.

• IPA^(key): /ɦœis/, [ɦʊ̟i̯s]

huis (plural huise)

1. house

• IPA^(key): /ɦœy̯s/

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• Hyphenation: huis
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

From Middle Dutch huus, from Old Dutch hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Doublet of osso.

huis n (plural huizen, diminutive huisje n)

1. house

   Synonym: osso (slang)

Case forms of this noun remain in, albeit very limited, use:

• The definite genitive des huizes to mean “of the family, household”, e.g. de dame des huizes (“the lady of the house”), een vriend des huizes (“a friend of the family”).
• The dative huize in prepositional expressions used chiefly referring to large manors or jokingly, e.g. in huize Mulder (“at the Mulders’ house”). It is also used in a formal manner in the fixed expression ten huize van (“at the house of”).

• huizen

• Afrikaans: huis
• Jersey Dutch: häus

See the etymology of the main entry.

huis

1. first-person singular present indicative of huizen
2. imperative of huizen

From Old French huis, uis, from Latin ostium.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/

huis m (plural huis)

1. (obsolete except in the fixed expression below) door

• huis clos; à huis clos
• huissier

• “huis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /hɪʃ/

huis m

1. Obsolete spelling of hois: h-prothesized form of uis

huis!

1. Obsolete spelling of hois

• uis

From Latin ostium.

huis m (oblique plural huis, nominative singular huis, nominative plural huis)

1. external door

• French: huis
• Norman: us
• Picard: uis
• Walloon: ouxh

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (huis)

huis

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (vos) present indicative form of huir.